Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of German Klisch : from Old Polish kleć ‘shabby room’ or ‘gossip’, or from Upper Sorbian kletka ‘smallholding’, ‘tumbledown house’ (from Old Slavic kleti ‘house’).
- Americanized spelling of German Klisch : alternatively, it may be from the Slavic personal name Klich, a derivative of the personal name Kliment (see Clement).